Prohibition: The Noble Experiment

1. In A Democracy, people should have the freedom to make their own choices and be responsible for their actions. If they want to indulge in destructive personal behavior, that's their business, not the goverments.Definitions2. A Democratic Goverment is made up of its citizens and major responsibility of goverment is to guarentee equal opportunity for all. The goverment has a duty to alleviate social ills and guarantee that no one is in need. Pictures

But Instead of solving the problems of criminality, through this amendment crime and corruption arose in America; within the first hours of the 18th Amendment taking effect there were already liquor robberies and hijackings. And within the following month the first federal agents were arrested for liquor law corruption. Thousands of phoney prescriptions for liquor were issued by physicians trying to benifit from the Amendment. America was facing a dark decade in which corruption became routine, and crime more profitable, more people died then in previouse years. By the time Prohibition was repealed, nearly 800 gangsters in the City of Chicago alone had been killed in bootleg-related shootings. And, of course, thousands of citizens were killed, blinded, or paralyzed as a result of drinking contaminated bootleg alcohol. Prohibition agents routinely broke the law themselves. They shot innocent people and regularly destroyed citizens' vehicles, homes, businesses, and other valuable property."Predictable History, Unpredictable Past." : The "Absolute Shall" Shall Always Absolutely Fail, Especially In America! And More Cheers For It! N.p., n.d. Web. 15 Oct. 2013.Kolar, Miroslav. "What Is Democracy?" What Is Democracy? N.p., 17 Aug. 2005. Web. 16 Oct. 2013. ."75 Years Ago Prohibition Was Repealed by the 21st Amendment of the U.S. Constitution." Examiner.com. N.p., n.d. Web. 16 Oct. 2013. ."The Great Gatsby Era: New York City in the Roaring Twenties." NY Daily News. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Oct. 2013."UtellStory - Tell Stories, Share Topics, Make Impact." UtellStory - Tell Stories, Share Topics, Make Impact. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Oct. 2013."WebQuest: Prohibition: Created with Zunal WebQuest Maker." WebQuest: Prohibition: Created with Zunal WebQuest Maker. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Oct. 2013."WE WANT BEER. Prohibition Pics - Tapiture." Tapiture. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Oct. 2013."Ken Burns' Prohibition Reviewed: A Fascinating Series about the Noble Experiment." Slate Magazine. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Oct. 2013. "Mind Novelty." Mind Novelty. N.p., n.d. Web. 18 Oct. 2013."Prohibition." PBS. PBS, n.d. Web. 18 Oct. 2013.Dictionary.com. Dictionary.com, n.d. Web. 18 Oct. 2013.

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Prohibition: The Noble Experiment

The 18th Amendment banned the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol . It was ratified on January 16, 1919 and repealed in 1933. The nation's attitude about alcohal:

A major prohibitionist group, the Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) taught that the majority of beer drinkers die from dropsie. People were so convinced that alcohol was the cause of virtually all the crimes, some towns even sold their jails. They even hired a scholar to rewrite the Bible by removing all references to alcohol beverage. The Ku Klux Klan (KKK) strongly supported Prohibition and its strict enforcement. The temperance movement taught that alcohol was a poison, people insisted that school books shouldn't mention the fact that alcohol was commonly prescribed by physicians for medicinal and health purposes.